Nhan Dan – The Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital has begun operating two new radiotherapy machines, worth VND32 billion (US$1.53 million).

The Austrian Government will provide modern medical equipment worth EUR8.7 million for the Ninh Binh General Hospital to meet high-quality check-ups and treatment demands of people in the province and surrounding areas.

Vietnamese and foreign experts presented nearly 50 papers at the 12th Vietnam-France-Asia-Pacific Conference on Obstetrics and Gynecology held on May 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nhan Dan – Hanoi’s Viet-Duc Hospital yesterday announced that on May 8 it successfully carried out organ transplant surgeries on four patients suffering from viscera failure, using organs donated by a 25-year-old brain-dead patient.

Can Tho general hospital in Can Tho city has put 25 new artificial kidney machines into operation, serving the demands of people in the Mekong Delta region.

The Vietnam Medi-Pharm 2012 exhibition opened its door on May 9 at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi.

The Unilever Vietnam Fund has helped to build and upgrade 20 public toilets while improving public awareness of personal and environmental hygiene in 20 communes in ten districts of ten cities and provinces nationwide.

Viet Duc Hospital has implemented successfully a liver transplant for a 74-year-old patient, the oldest among those who got liver transplant in Vietnam to date.

A project to develop regional and provincial hospitals in the second phase using ODA loans of Japan will be carried out in ten hospitals this year, said a seminar in Hanoi on May 4.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported declining breastfeeding rates in Asia earlier this week.

Nhan Dan - A centre for stem cell research was officially opened on May 3 in Hanoi under the auspices of the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT).

Nhan Dan – The first phase of the Hue Eye Hospital project was completed and officially launched at the Nam Vi Da planning area in Hue city on April 28.

The Vietnam Nurses’ Association and Asian Human Power (AHP) of Japan have signed a co-operative agreement on training nurses and orderlies.

A stem cell bank has opened in Ho Chi Minh City under the auspices of the Hospital of Blood Transfusion and Hematology.

Vietnam and Japan have signed and exchanged a legal document on a co-operative agreement to send and receive nurses and orderlies between the two countries.

Policymakers from Vietnam’s health care sector and experts from Harvard University in the US, gathered in Hanoi on April 16 for a seminar to discuss new methods and tools for Vietnam’s health care system and its financial reforms.

Nhan Dan Online – Vietnam urgently needs to upgrade waste management in hospitals across the country and seek greener and more sustainable ways to protect the environment and public health from the impact of medical waste, said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien at a conference in Hanoi on April 12.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has required hospitals and clinics nationwide to take extra measures to curb outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) as least as possible.

Nhan Dan - The South Australia Institute of Ophthalmology (SAIO) presented VND1 billion (roughly US$52,000) in ophthalmic surgical equipment to the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) on April 9 in Hanoi.

Nhan Dan – Localities across the country actively responded to Voluntary Blood Donation Day (April 7) with a wide variety of activities.